Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

scrap drive

Portuguese translation:

coleta de materiais para reciclagem

Added to glossary by airmailrpl
Sep 19, 2004 10:13
19 yrs ago
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English term

scrap drive

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Não consigo perceber o significado desta expressão.
Estão a dizer que alguém andava a apanhar latas e borracha para o "scrap drive".
Obrigada pela ajuda!
Proposed translations (Portuguese)
5 coleta de materiais para reciclagem

Proposed translations

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coleta de materiais para reciclagem

re.ci.cla.gem
[Resikl'aJëj] s. f. (pl. -gens) recycling.

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scrap.1
n 1 pedaço, fragmento, pedacinho, resto. 2 pedaço de jornal, de papel, recorte. 3 torresmo. 4 refugo, sobras. // vt 1 quebrar, esmagar, transformar em pedaços. 2 descartar, jogar no ferro velho. scrap value valor de material usado.

scrap iron
n ferro velho, sucata

scrap heap
n monte de sucata, monte de refugo.

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The Success of Scrap Metal Drives for War Effort
Scrap Metal. Lincoln Boy Scout Scrap Drive. Mag Me!\"Junior Commando\" Boy Scouts in a scrap metal pile, Lincoln. Click the Mag Me! icon to magnify the photograph ...
www.nebraskastudies.org/0800/stories/0801_0130.html

Peoria Jaycees: 1940s - Page 1
... A big project during 1942 was the scrap drive headed up by HL \"Bud\" Stoner, for which a huge pile of household scrap a block long was collected and piled at ...
www.jaycees.com/history/1940s1.htm

Were WWII scrap drives just a ploy to boost morale?
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020531.html
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